LMAO, but Phil? That's not a safety harness ~ Jarrow folks were LYNCHING the git! lol
Did you know, Jarow was the last place in Britain to hang a criminal, cover his body in tar, then hoist him high in a cage for all to see for months on end! (And that was only a few years ago), pmsl. The site is there to this day, near the river Tyne ~ It's called "Jarrow Slake".
William Jobling was a miner hanged and gibbeted for the murder of Nicholas Fairless, a colliery owner and local magistrate, near Jarrow, Durham. After being hanged the body was taken off the rope, and loaded into a cart and taken on a tour of the area before arriving at Jarrow Slake where the crime had been committed. Here the body was placed into an iron gibbet cage. The cage and the scene were described thus: "the body was encased in flat bars of iron of two and a half inches in breadth, the feet were placed in stirrups, from which a bar of iron went up each side of the head, and ended in a ring by which he was suspended; a bar from the collar went down the breast, and another down the back, there were also bars in the inside of the legs which communicated with the above; and crossbars at the ankles, the knees, the thighs, the bowels the breast and the shoulders; the hands were hung by the side and covered with pitch, the face was pitched and covered with a piece of white cloth." The gibbet was a foot in diameter with strong bars of iron up each side. The post was fixed into a one-and-a-half ton stone base, sunk into the Slake.[9] The body was soon removed by fellow miners and given a decent burial.
Times are hard for Branson as he was snapped yesterday in Jarrow complete with safety harness,trying to sort out George's disconnected Broadband!
LMAO, but Phil? That's not a safety harness ~ Jarrow folks were LYNCHING the git! lol
ReplyDeleteDid you know, Jarow was the last place in Britain to hang a criminal, cover his body in tar, then hoist him high in a cage for all to see for months on end! (And that was only a few years ago), pmsl.
The site is there to this day, near the river Tyne ~ It's called "Jarrow Slake".
Thought they still did that in Jarrow for anyone found with a season ticket for Newcastle FC!LOL
ReplyDeleteBranson makes a break for freedom from the Tyne at the "Jarrow Slake"before the tarring began!!
ReplyDeletePMSL....He sure wouldn't have that customary STOOPID grin on his face!! LOL
ReplyDeleteWilliam Jobling was a miner hanged and gibbeted for the murder of Nicholas Fairless, a colliery owner and local magistrate, near Jarrow, Durham. After being hanged the body was taken off the rope, and loaded into a cart and taken on a tour of the area before arriving at Jarrow Slake where the crime had been committed. Here the body was placed into an iron gibbet cage. The cage and the scene were described thus:
ReplyDelete"the body was encased in flat bars of iron of two and a half inches in breadth, the feet were placed in stirrups, from which a bar of iron went up each side of the head, and ended in a ring by which he was suspended; a bar from the collar went down the breast, and another down the back, there were also bars in the inside of the legs which communicated with the above; and crossbars at the ankles, the knees, the thighs, the bowels the breast and the shoulders; the hands were hung by the side and covered with pitch, the face was pitched and covered with a piece of white cloth."
The gibbet was a foot in diameter with strong bars of iron up each side. The post was fixed into a one-and-a-half ton stone base, sunk into the Slake.[9] The body was soon removed by fellow miners and given a decent burial.
Oh fucket, photobucket got ya Phil!
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